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SYDNEY: The brush-tailed bettong — a rare, very cute marsupial resembling a rabbit-sized kangaroo — is bouncing back on the South Australian mainland, more than 100 years after disappearing from the region. Bettongs, which leap with their hindlegs much like a full-sized kangaroo, populated over 60 per cent of Australia before falling victim to cats, foxes and land-clearing after European …

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